## DIRECTIVE TO D. I. KURSKY
[December 20, 1918]

To Kursky.

I request that you immediately initiate an investigation into this matter¹.

Lenin

¹ D. I. Kursky — People's Commissar of Justice.

² The directive was written on a telegram from "the manager of the train named after V. I. Lenin" G. V. Skolditsky, sent from the Butyrskaya Prison hospital. Skolditsky explained the reason for his arrest by saying that, unfamiliar with railroad procedures, he had positioned the train at Arzamas station on the first track. Appealing to V. I. Lenin, he requests his release and the restoration of justice and legality.

## TELEGRAM TO V. N. YAKOVLEVA

December 20, 1918
Petrograd, Gorokhovaya 2

To Yakovleva
Copy: Smolny, Zinoviev

Your arrival here is necessary immediately for central work.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

¹ V. N. Yakovleva — after the October Revolution, a member of the collegium of the NKVD and People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, head of affairs of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, and held a number of other responsible posts in Soviet and Party work. On May 18, 1918, by a special decision of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) "on strengthening the Cheka with new comrades," V. N. Yakovleva was drawn into heading the department for struggle against counter-revolution at the Extraordinary Commission. Ya. M. Sverdlov requested her transfer to work in the Center twice via telegrams dated December 24 and 31, 1918 (see From the History of the Cheka. Collection of Documents 1917–1921, M., 1958, pp. 110–117).

## TELEGRAM TO PETROGRAD TO G. E. ZINOVIEV

December 26, 1918
Petrograd
Smolny
To Zinoviev

Send Sergei Dmitrievich Markov¹ here immediately for work in the Center.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

¹ S. D. Markov — from the end of [1918] a member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Railways, from 1919 — deputy People's Commissar of Railways. On January 1, 1919, V. I. Lenin summoned S. D. Markov to Moscow a second time (see the present collection, p. 120).

## NOTE TO F. E. DZERZHINSKY

[1918]

Comrade Dzerzhinsky!

Tomorrow morning the attached documents are to be printed¹.

Would you not consider it useful to carry out arrests during the night at the indicated address—that is, in the district committee? Perhaps it would be possible to uncover the threads and connections of the counter-revolutionaries; it is especially important that here (hardly for the first time) there is official documentation of the connection between those shooting and the Socialist-Revolutionary party.

Lenin

¹ It has not been established which documents are in question.